Code Injection in minimist package for NPM



Published: 2020-03-18 | Updated: 2020-07-22
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-7598
CWE-ID CWE-94
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerabilities.

Updated: 22.07.2020

Lowered severity of the vulnerability from High to Medium, assigned CVE-ID, updated CVSS score to reflect changes.

1) Prototype pollution

EUVDB-ID: #VU26151

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 8.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7598

CWE-ID: CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary script code.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Mitigation

The vendor has issued the following versions to address this vulnerability: 1.2.3.

Vulnerable software versions

minimist: 0.0.0 - 1.2.2

External links

http://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1179


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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